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This evening, the Illinois House voted to approve the Illinois Youth Health and Safety Act, sending the measure to the Governor. The bill would repeal the 1995 Parental Notice of Abortion Act which has been enforced for the past eight years.
Just a few minutes ago, the Illinois Senate approved the Illinois Youth Health and Safety Act, a measure that repeals Illinois’ Parental Notice of Abortion Act, sending the measure to the House of Representatives for final approval. The following statement can be attributed to
In response to wild, totally unfounded claims made anti-abortion defenders of Illinois’ dangerous parental notice of abortion law,
The ACLU of Illinois today issued the following statement in response to threats from the CPD and their union to ignore the City vaccine mandate:
Today’s report from the Independent Monitor provides the City and the Chicago Police Department (CPD) with another failing grade on compliance with terms of the federal consent decree– two and a half years after the City promised to make these systemic chang
After a weekend shooting in the Austin neighborhood, Mayor Lori Lightfoot and CPD Superintendent David Brown have publicly critiqued a decision by the State’s Attorney Office to decline the filing of charges, even as police acknowledge the lack of a real inv